חוק שיפוט בתי דין רבניים (נישואין וגירושין) (תיקון מס' 4 והוראת שעה), התשע"ח-2018Law Jurisdiction of Rabbinical Courts (Marriage and Divorce) (Amendment No. 4 and temporary provision), 2018 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Amendment was passed on 25 June 2018 and stipulated that the Rabbinical Court should be authorized, under a temporary provision for three years subject to a duty to report to the Knesset, to hear a claim by a Jewish woman seeking to receive a divorce from her Jewish husband, even if they have no connection to Israel, provided they married according to Jewish law and one of the following applies: (1) there is no court that can hear the divorce case in their place of residence; (2) the spouse did not appear for a hearing at a court outside Israel for four months; (3) a court outside Israel ruled that the husband must give his wife a divorce, but despite reasonable efforts the divorce could not be enforced. The Amendment also amends the Rabbinical Courts Law (Enforcement of Divorce Judgments), 1995, known as the "Sanctions Law," and stipulates that when the defendant is a foreign resident, shortened timeframes will be set regarding the granting of a divorce and the imposition of sanctions to enforce the divorce.

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